WASHINGTON — A new report from the White House tries to shift the Trump administration’s combative rhetoric on health care, suggesting changes to the Affordable Care Act under President Donald Trump do not fundamentally undermine the health law. Democratic 2020 White House hopefuls are seizing on health care as an issue, with some pushing for a government-run system that would cover all Americans and replace the ACA, better known as “Obamacare.”The council is a White House agency that advises the president. The report looks at three big changes under Trump that affect former President Barack Obama’s health care law. Casey Mulligan, chief economist for the White House council, said it turns out that the health law’s penalty for people going uninsured wasn’t really essential for the program to function. Now the White House report undercuts the notion that the tax penalties at issue in the case are central to the health law.

Source: National Post February 08, 2019 07:05 UTC